Marc Barnes mistakes a call for prudence with a call for prohibition.

The chatbot, by virtue of being designed to appear human, appears sexual—male or female. 

Have they been exiled? No—they are camping.  

Thomas More’s martyrdom was no simple affair.

The liberal criminal has no common thing to return to.

On the blurring of human and artificial intelligence

It is useful for the rulers of the earth to play at ruling the air.

A new king has arrived—and we’ve given him the crown.   

 For heaven’s sake—someone had to throw a first punch.

America can often be an ugly place, but the field sobriety test is a flower of its field.

The nesting urge is not born in the months before birth. It does not arrive from out of the blue.

The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church is the only real, living, alternative to a world of unreality.

In the heavenly city, darkness and night are dispelled by the constant radiance of God. Our earthly cities have made a parody of this.

The meaning of identity is the question that now roils societies.

One is either of a people who forget or a people who remember.

I have been patronizing my dishwasher. I have been subsidizing its efforts.

Well, the pope has spoken. And the Church has lost its ever-loving mind.

Sovereignty is not merely a bad political ideal; it is simply, in the end, impossible.

For all the talk of “anti-discrimination,” current policies discriminate unjustly against actual human beings in favor of a disembodied, counterfactual “ideal.”

We are completely off whatever rockers we were trusted to sit on—and our condemnation of the stock market is entirely correct.

Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes have advocated that investing in a 401(k) or the stock market is generally immoral. I think that their view is incorrect.

Social media is a machine for the universalization of Posting, such that all human communication becomes a Post in its exterior form, regardless of the interior intention of the poster.

The real reformers, the ones who are most agitated about a problem, often gain their energy from the moral contradiction of being utterly implicated in the very sins they condemn.

The trouble with driving, according to Crawford, is that there isn’t enough of it.

Artificial intelligence is not a new frontier for man, but one of the oldest.

The failure of capitalism to live up to any of its goals can be traced to shareholding, the level of abstraction it represents, and the shift in economic purpose it demands.

Love and truth are neither expected nor (typically) desired from bureaucrats or chatbots.

The trouble with a technological age is that people are increasingly shapeless.

Recently a YouTuber—one of us whose “You” is intimately involved with a “Tube”—meandered down to God’s Own Steubenville, Ohio.

We will either become Catholic or remain counterproductive.